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Natural and man-made low-frequency magnetic fields as a potential health hazard

N. G. Ptitsyna^a, G. Villoresi^b, L. I. Dorman^cd, N. Iucci^b, M. I. Tyasto<sup>a

a</sup> St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences
^b Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Dipartimento di Fisica E. Amaldi
^c Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moskovskaya obl.
^d Israel Cosmic Ray and Space Weather Center and Emilio Ségre Observatory affiliated to Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Israel Space Agency

Abstract: Is human health affected by low-frequency low-intensity environmental magnetic fields? There is much diehard evidence that it is. For this reason irregular, spectrally complex ULF (0–10 Hz) magnetic fields have recently come under scrutiny, typical of natural geomagnetic perturbations or electric transportation. Recent work shows that such fields do affect the nervous system and may even cause heart attacks.

PACS: 87.40.+w, 87.50.-a

Received: June 1, 1998

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0168.199807d.0767

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1998, 41:7, 687–709

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